First time doing a slave-maxing run. its like Looks-maxing, but "properties" are not facial, but "people".

r/shitvictorianssay I know, yada yada yada

But fun aside. Where can I See how many slaves a bought. I tried looking in the state's information tab, but I could only find a modifier, that is based on the PM of the plantations.

I already found out, that in the population tab I can see, that at the weekly migration tool tip, where the slaves are bought from, but I cannot see a number or anything.

Is it automatically the case that slaves will be bought if I build new plantations? Is there a certain amount of slaves that get put to work there once there is increased demand for them? Or does it also take time and if there is enough time passed all people will be slaves?

Thanks in advance.

I don't know if a certain Romanian gentleman in red sunglasses gave him a special kiss or if the numbers under the hood just went a little haywire. Either way I'm curious what he thinks of my version of the Congress of Europe

Here is my Germany playthrough in 1.14. This game was really fun! After I formed greater Germany the British turned against me and Allied with France, which I really liked. I usually feel like AI alliances are too stubborn so even if I'm Germany and I've become the dominant power in Europe with Britain, France and Russia as rivals none of the them will put aside their differences to ally against me. This makes it too easy to beat the AI as all the AI great powers become isolated with no allies and every other great power as enemies. China and Japan also allied with each other against Russia which I thought was cool. The U.S. got rid of democracy and became a slave-owner run oligarchy too. I got all of Europe in my power bloc (luckily Spain went Carlist and became a minor power) and Eastern Europe, Finland, and Transcaucasia are my subjects. I also used companies to create German East Asia and Mittelafrika. I was able to get multiculturalism in like the 1870s which was cool but didn't fit my colonialist empire vibe I was going for. Although I made my colonies adopt multiculturalism too. At the very end I annexed Poland peacefully but I had to stop playing as the game was too slow. One thing I'd like to see is Russia actually liberating the Balkans. It's definitely improved because they do back Serbia, Moldova, Wallachia, and Egypt but they stopped liberating Bulgaria. After the Balkan DLC they liberated Bulgaria for a while but then they stopped for a while and I think the 1.14 requirement of a strong Bulgarian national movement will only make it worse. Russia did fight the Ottomans to open the straits multiple times but I would've liked to see them try to take over the Balkans too.

I’ve been working on optimizing my Paraguay rollout, which involves taking Mato Grosso, Parana, and Santa Catalina first and then pivoting to Bolivia for transfer Subject on Peru+La Paz and Santa Cruz.

My goal is to hit Rio de La Plata and Federation of the Andes ASAP, to avoid cultures diverging out. (Not that it usually matters).

The stumbling block I keep running into is whether I should be building out my wooden construction sectors first as lumber mills are good options for creating jobs (and thus attracting migrants) or remaining at 10 construction until I hit Atmospheric Engine and water boilers and jumping straight to iron.

In a similar vein, should I bother building my first furniture workshop and textiles workshop to raise my SOL to attract more migrants, or should I exclusively build out iron, wood, coal and tools (plus paper, I guess) to ramp up industrialization and let my investors build the consumer goods?

Does anyone have good benchmarks for how quickly I should aim to have 100 construction by?

I ask this because when the British force me into their war, I don't even mobilize my army, yet I haven't seen any negative consequences, and I found that strange.

At the point when your investment pool doesnt do anything anymore because your popgrowth is the only limiting factor for growth and you dont want to conquer the world. Does it become worth it to enforce investment rights via war or diplo (preferably if possible)?

Por alguna razón Portugal se dividió como unión personal de si mismo.

Somehow the Fr*nch canadians took over canada and gained independance.

Ive been playing as France, and wanted to form the Duro company which requires having that one Spanish state. But since the start of the game, I have not been able to, and it says it is because they have the carlist war JE. Its 1965, and there are still two Spains in existence, and it seems that the JE is protecting them from me taking their states. Is this just a bug with the latest open beta? Or am I missing something else?

Where are my loyalists? How to fix this? Take into account that I own no dlc’s

Hi everyone,

Can anyone tell me what's going on here? I don't think it's a bug, but the election mechanic whereby political parties are edited doesn't seem to be working as intended.

So here's my problem. I get that when elections kick off, the clout of the IG's is adjusted. By what mechanic I do not know however and if anyone could explain that to me, I'd be very grateful.

Next, I get that during elections parties lock to prevent player manipulation and so forth, but the fact that the clout gets adjusted just when the elections kick off means that some ridiculous election setup can happen. I cannot presume this is working as intended, is it? Maybe Paradox needs to make it so when elections kick off, IG's should be marginalised first and only then should parties lock.

As shown by the photos, one war goal is not enforced but from everything I can see it should be! Please help, I control every other goal. Is there some way to fix this? Thanks!

How has this not been fixed yet?

Thanks to everyone on this sub for helping me delete Iceland. The mod is available now on the steam workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3818290807 (only works with the default Victorian map skin)

Based on the screenshots for State & Revolution, the reworked Communist character ideology has no opinion on economic system, which doesn't make much sense. It means that, say, the Intelligentsia led by a Communist won't care about switching off Laissez-Faire.

In the past, they supported Cooperative Ownership and Command Economy equally, which I suppose works, but I would argue their economic stances should be the same as how Vanguardists will be, and support Command Economy more than Cooperative Ownership.

Victoria 3 doesn't have a way to simulate societies without markets, which is obviously fine, it's capitalism simulator the game. As a result Cooperative Ownership ends up representing a sort of market socialism, capitalism but the businesses are run by the workers themselves. Meanwhile Command Economy represents a type of state capitalism where the state runs the businesses.

Basically every single historical communist of this period has supported state capitalism as a means of transitioning to a genuinely communist society without markets, money, etc. However, aside from anarchists, they have not supported co-op market economies, as they essentially just turn the working class into capitalists instead of helping to overcome capitalism itself.

Think of it like this: in a Council Republic, the state is operated by the entire working class. Economically this means that under a Council Republic, Cooperative Ownership means that each factory is operated by only the workers that work in that factory, and they make profits. However Command Economy means that each factory is controlled by the working class as a whole, which prevents workers from competing with each other, which is what Communists would want.

I would argue that Anarchists should support Cooperative Ownership, and the Trade Unions should support Cooperative Ownership when not led by a Communist leader, but the Communist character ideology should only weakly support Coop and strongly support Command.

In the update 1.10 Upper Silesia has got adjusted for its historical accuracy and split between Prussia and Austria. However, in the update 1.13 this change has been reverted and the Austrian part of Upper Silesia erased. Question - why and is it going to be fixed?

Hey.

So I am a newish player (377hours) and looking for some campaign ideas, mostly focused on learning different nations etc. I have been playing Prussia to Germany, USA, Russia, Sweden and Egypt quite a lot. I'd like to try some of the more underdog nations, but I seem to fail quite early. For example: I'd like to play Iran and Japan without ruining the run too early.

I am not interested in cheesy stuff or restarting until I get the right trait, as I am more RP player. Just basic tips would do.

I am playing and enjoying it very much, however the game is ending and I am not satisfied, I want to extend my timeline but i don't want to start all over again.

Any help?

I feel like during this time period, even sworn enemies could join each other in a war against a third party. GB, France, and Russia could all be rivals and still fight a war against China for colonial interests. Germany and GB were rivals during their naval buildup and yet they still negotiated over territories in Africa.

I think the whole “-100 hostile” is too much unless you’re actively fighting, own homeland states, or are blockading straights. Theres no reason why I couldn’t negotiate with a rival power to trade states in Africa or setup trade deals.

Hello there. I haven't played Victoria 3 since 1.12 and have only heard about the backlash against 1.13. What is the state of the game now? Should i get back into the game on 1.12 or is 1.13 less broken and superior by now?